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Suite Mentale by Garrett, Randall, 1927-1987
Suite Mentale by Garrett, Randall, 1927-1987
by Randall Garrett
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Overture—Adagio Misterioso
THE NEUROSURGEON peeled the thin surgical gloves from his hands as the nurse blotted the perspiration
from his forehead for the last time after the long, grueling hours.
The neurosurgeon nodded wordlessly. Behind him, three assistants were still finishing up the operation,
attending to the little finishing touches that did not require the brilliant hand of the specialist. Such things as
suturing up a scalp, and applying bandages.
The nurse took the sterile mask—no longer sterile now—while the doctor washed and dried his hands.
She nodded. "You'll probably have to push them out of the way to get out of Surgery."
HER PREDICTION was almost perfect. The group of men in conservative business suits, wearing
conservative ties, and holding conservative, soft, felt hats in their hands were standing just outside the door.
Dr. Mallon glanced at the five of them, letting his eyes stop on the face of the tallest. "He may live," the
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"You don't sound very optimistic, Dr. Mallon," said the FBI man.
Mallon shook his head. "Frankly, I'm not. He was shot laterally, just above the right temple, with what looks
to me like a .357 magnum pistol slug. It's in there—" He gestured back toward the room he had just left.
"—you can have it, if you want. It passed completely through the brain, lodging on the other side of the head,
just inside the skull. What kept him alive, I'll never know, but I can guarantee that he might as well be dead; it
was a rather nasty way to lobotomize a man, but it was effective, I can assure you."
The Federal agent frowned puzzledly. "Lobotomized? Like those operations they do on psychotics?"
"Similar," said Mallon. "But no psychotic was ever butchered up like this; and what I had to do to him to save
his life didn't help anything."
The men looked at each other, then the big one said: "I'm sure you did the best you could, Dr. Mallon."
The neurosurgeon rubbed the back of his hand across his forehead and looked steadily into the eyes of the big
man.
"You wanted him alive," he said slowly, "and I have a duty to save life. But frankly, I think we'll all
eventually wish we had the common human decency to let Paul Wendell die. Excuse me, gentlemen; I don't
feel well." He turned abruptly and strode off down the hall.
ONE OF the men in the conservative suits said: "Louis Pasteur lived through most of his life with only half a
brain and he never even knew it, Frank; maybe—"
"Yeah. Maybe," said the big man. "But I don't know whether to hope he does or hope he doesn't." He used his
right thumbnail to pick a bit of microscopic dust from beneath his left index finger, studying the operation
without actually seeing it. "Meanwhile, we've got to decide what to do about the rest of those screwballs.
Wendell was the only sane one, and therefore the most dangerous—but the rest of them aren't what you'd call
safe, either."
Nocturne—Tempo di valse
"NOW WHAT the hell's the matter with me?" thought Paul Wendell. He could feel nothing. Absolutely
nothing: No taste, no sight, no hearing, no anything. "Am I breathing?" He couldn't feel any breathing. Nor,
for that matter, could he feel heat, nor cold, nor pain.
"Am I dead? No. At least, I don't feel dead. Who am I? What am I?" No answer. Cogito, ergo sum. What did
that mean? There was something quite definitely wrong, but he couldn't quite tell what it was. Ideas seemed to
come from nowhere; fragments of concepts that seemed to have no referents. What did that mean? What is a
referent? A concept? He felt he knew intuitively what they meant, but what use they were he didn't know.
There was something wrong, and he had to find out what it was. And he had to find out through the only
method of investigation left open to him.
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THE PRESIDENT of the United States finished reading the sheaf of papers before him, laid them neatly to
one side, and looked up at the big man seated across the desk from him.
"That's everything, Mr. President; everything we know. We've got eight men locked up in St. Elizabeth's, all
of them absolutely psychotic, and one human vegetable named Paul Wendell. We can't get anything out of
them."
The President leaned back in his chair. "I really can't quite understand it. Extra-sensory perception—why
should it drive men insane? Wendell's papers don't say enough. He claims it can be mathematically worked
out—that he did work it out—but we don't have any proof of that."
The man named Frank scowled. "Wasn't that demonstration of his proof enough?"
A small, graying, intelligent-faced man who had been sitting silently, listening to the conversation, spoke at
last. "Mr. President, I'm afraid I still don't completely understand the problem. If we could go over it, and get
it straightened out—" He left the sentence hanging expectantly.
"Certainly. This Paul Wendell is a—well, he called himself a psionic mathematician. Actually, he had quite a
respectable reputation in the mathematical field. He did very important work in cybernetic theory, but he
dropped it several years ago—said that the human mind couldn't be worked at from a mechanistic angle. He
studied various branches of psychology, and eventually dropped them all. He built several of those queer
psionic machines—gold detectors, and something he called a hexer. He's done a lot of different things,
evidently."
"Sounds like he was unable to make up his mind," said the small man.
THE PRESIDENT shook his head firmly. "Not at all. He did new, creative work in every one of the fields he
touched. He was considered something of a mystic, but not a crackpot, or a screwball.
"But, anyhow, the point is that he evidently found what he'd been looking for for years. He asked for an
appointment with me; I okayed the request because of his reputation. He would only tell me that he'd
stumbled across something that was vital to national defense and the future of mankind; but I felt that, in view
of the work he had done, he was entitled to a hearing."
"And he proved to you, beyond any doubt, that he had this power?" the small man asked.
Frank shifted his big body uneasily in his chair. "He certainly did, Mr. Secretary."
The President nodded. "I know it might not sound too impressive when heard second-hand, but Paul Wendell
could tell me more of what was going on in the world than our Central Intelligence agents have been able to
dig up in twenty years. And he claimed he could teach the trick to anyone.
"I told him I'd think it over. Naturally, my first step was to make sure that he was followed twenty-four hours
a day. A man with information like that simply could not be allowed to fall into enemy hands." The President
scowled, as though angry with himself. "I'm sorry to say that I didn't realize the full potentialities of what he
had said for several days—not until I got Frank's first report."
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"YOU COULD hardly be expected to, Mr. President," Frank said. "After all, something like that is pretty
heady stuff."
"I think I follow you," said the Secretary. "You found he was already teaching this trick to others."
The President glanced at the FBI man. Frank said: "That's right; he was holding meetings—classes, I suppose
you'd call them—twice a week. There were eight men who came regularly."
"That's when I gave the order to have them all picked up. Can you imagine what would happen if everybody
could be taught to use this ability? Or even a small minority?"
The President shrugged that off. "That's a small item, really. The point is that nothing would be hidden from
anyone.
"The way we play the Game of Life today is similar to playing poker. We keep a straight face and play the
cards tight to our chest. But what would happen if everyone could see everyone else's cards? It would cease to
be a game of strategy, and become a game of pure chance.
"WE'D HAVE to start playing Life another way. It would be like chess, where you can see the opponent's
every move. But in all human history there has never been a social analogue for chess. That's why Paul
Wendell and his group had to be stopped—for a while at least."
"But what could you have done with them?" asked the Secretary. "Imprison them summarily? Have them
shot? What would you have done?"
The President's face became graver than ever. "I had not yet made that decision. Thank Heaven, it has been
taken out of my hands."
"That's right," said the big FBI man. "We went into his apartment an instant too late. We found eight madmen
and a near-corpse. We're not sure what happened, and we're not sure we want to know. Anything that can
drive eight reasonably stable men off the deep end in less than an hour is nothing to meddle around with."
"I wonder what went wrong?" asked the Secretary of no one in particular.
Scherzo—Presto
Slowly, over a period of immeasurable time, memory seeped back into him. Bits of memory, here and there,
crept in from nowhere, sometimes to be lost again, sometimes to remain. Once he found himself mentally
humming an odd, rather funeral tune:
Now, though you'd have said that the head was dead,
For its owner dead was he,
It stood on its neck with a smile well-bred,
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When he suddenly realized, with crashing finality, where he was and what had happened to him, Paul Wendell
went violently insane. Or he would have, if he could have become violent.
Marche Funebre—Lento
"OPEN YOUR mouth, Paul," said the pretty nurse. The hulking mass of not-quite-human gazed at her with
vacuous eyes and opened its mouth. Dexterously, she spooned a mouthful of baby food into it. "Now swallow
it, Paul. That's it. Now another."
Nurse Peters turned to look at the man who had walked up behind her. It was Dr. Benwick, the new interne.
"He's worthless to himself and anyone else," she said. "It's a shame, too; he'd be rather nice looking if there
were any personality behind that face." She shoveled another spoonful of mashed asparagus into the gaping
mouth. "Now swallow it, Paul."
"How long has he been here?" Benwick asked, eyeing the scars that showed through the dark hair on the
patient's head.
"Open your mouth, Paul." Then, to Benwick: "This was an accident. Bullet in the head. You can see the scar
on the other side of his head."
THE DOCTOR moved around to look at the left temple. "Doesn't leave much of a human being, does it?"
"It doesn't even leave much of an animal," Miss Peters said. "He's alive, but that's the best you can say for
him. (Now swallow, Paul. That's it.) Even an ameba can find food for itself."
"Yeah. Even a single cell is better off than he is. Chop out a man's forebrain and he's nothing. It's a case of the
whole being less than the sum of its parts."
"I'm glad they outlawed the operation on mental patients," Miss Peters said, with a note of disgust in her
voice.
Dr. Benwick said: "It's worse than it looks. Do you know why the anti-lobotomists managed to get the bill
passed?"
"Let's drink some milk now, Paul. No, Doctor; I was only a little girl at that time."
"It was a matter of electro-encephalographic records. They showed that there was electrical activity in the
prefrontal lobes even after the nerves had been severed, which could mean a lot of things; but the A-L
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supporters said that it indicated that the forebrain was still capable of thinking."
Miss Peters looked a little ill. "Why—that's horrible! I wish you'd never told me." She looked at the lump of
vegetablized human sitting placidly at the table. "Do you suppose he's actually thinking, somewhere, deep
inside?"
"Oh, I doubt it," Benwick said hastily. "There's probably no real self-awareness, none at all. There couldn't
be."
"I suppose not," Miss Peters said, "but it's not pleasant to think of."
INSANITY IS a retreat from reality, an escape within the mind from the reality outside the mind. But what if
there is no detectable reality outside the mind? What is there to escape from? Suicide—death in any form—is
an escape from life. But if death does not come, and can not be self-inflicted, what then?
And when the pressure of nothingness becomes too great to bear, it becomes necessary to escape; a man under
great enough pressure will take the easy way out. But if there is no easy way? Why, then a man must take the
hard way.
For Paul Wendell, there was no escape from his dark, senseless Gehenna by way of death, and even insanity
offered no retreat; insanity in itself is senseless, and senselessness was what he was trying to flee. The only
insanity possible was the psychosis of regression, a fleeing into the past, into the crystallized, unchanging
world of memory.
So Paul Wendell explored his past, every year, every hour, every second of it, searching to recall and savor
every bit of sensation he had ever experienced. He tasted and smelled and touched and heard and analyzed
each of them minutely. He searched through his own subjective thought processes, analyzing, checking and
correlating them.
Know thyself. Time and time again, Wendell retreated from his own memories in confusion, or shame, or fear.
But there was no retreat from himself, and eventually he had to go back and look again.
He had plenty of time—all the time in the world. How can subjective time be measured when there is no
objective reality?
EVENTUALLY, there came the time when there was nothing left to look at; nothing left to see; nothing to
check and remember; nothing that he had not gone over in every detail. Again, boredom began to creep in. It
was not the boredom of nothingness, but the boredom of the familiar. Imagination? What could he imagine,
except combinations and permutations of his own memories? He didn't know—perhaps there might be more
to it than that.
So he exercised his imagination. With a wealth of material to draw upon, he would build himself worlds
where he could move around, walk, talk, and make love, eat, drink and feel the caress of sunshine and wind.
It was while he was engaged in this project that he touched another mind. He touched it, fused for a blinding
second, and bounced away. He ran gibbering up and down the corridors of his own memory, mentally reeling
from the shock of—identification!
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WHO WAS he? Paul Wendell? Yes, he knew with incontrovertible certainty that he was Paul Wendell. But he
also knew, with almost equal certainty, that he was Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton. He was living—had
lived—in the latter half of the nineteenth century. But he knew nothing of the Captain other than the certainty
of identity; nothing else of that blinding mind-touch remained.
Again he scoured his memory—Paul Wendell's memory—checking and rechecking the area just
before that semi-fatal bullet had crashed through his brain.
And finally, at long last, he knew with certainty where his calculations had gone astray. He knew positively
why eight men had gone insane.
Then he went again in search of other minds, and this time he knew he would not bounce.
AN OLD MAN sat quietly in his lawnchair, puffing contentedly on an expensive briar pipe and making
corrections with a fountain pen on a thick sheaf of typewritten manuscript. Around him stretched an expanse
of green lawn, dotted here and there with squat cycads that looked like overgrown pineapples; in the distance,
screening the big house from the road, stood a row of stately palms, their fronds stirring lightly in the faint,
warm California breeze.
The old man raised his head as a car pulled into the curving driveway. The warm hum of the turboelectric
engine stopped, and a man climbed out of the vehicle. He walked with easy strides across the grass to where
the elderly gentleman sat. He was lithe, of indeterminate age, but with a look of great determination. There
was something in his face that made the old man vaguely uneasy—not with fear but with a sense of
deep respect.
"I have some news for you, Mr. President," the younger one said.
The old man smiled wryly. "I haven't been President for fourteen years. Most people call me 'Senator' or just
plain 'Mister'."
THE YOUNGER man smiled back. "Very well, Senator. My name is Camberton, James Camberton. I
brought some information that may possibly relieve your mind—or, again, it may not."
"You sound ominous, Mr. Camberton. I hope you'll remember that I've been retired from the political field for
nearly five years. What is this shattering news?"
The Senator looked blank for a second, then recognition came into his face. "Wendell, eh? After all this time.
Poor chap; he'd have been better off if he'd died twenty years ago." Then he paused and looked up. "But just
who are you, Mr. Camberton? And what makes you think I would be particularly interested in Paul Wendell?"
"Mr. Wendell wants to tell you that he is very grateful to you for having saved his life, Senator. If it hadn't
been for your orders, he would have been left to die."
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The Senator felt strangely calm, although he knew he should feel shock. "That's ridiculous, sir! Mr. Wendell's
brain was hopelessly damaged; he never recovered his sanity or control of his body. I know; I used to drop
over to see him occasionally, until I finally realized that I was only making myself feel worse and doing him
no good."
"Yes, sir. And Mr. Wendell wants you to know how much he appreciated those visits."
THE SENATOR grew red. "What the devil are you talking about? I just said that Wendell couldn't talk. How
could he have said anything to you? What do you know about this?"
"I never said he spoke to me, Senator; he didn't. And as to what I know of this affair, evidently you don't
remember my name. James Camberton."
The Senator frowned. "The name is familiar, but—" Then his eyes went wide. "Camberton! You were
one of the eight men who—Why, you're the man who shot Wendell!"
Camberton pulled up an empty lawnchair and sat down. "That's right, Senator; but there's nothing to be afraid
of. Would you like to hear about it?"
"I suppose I must." The old man's voice was so low that it was scarcely audible. "Tell me—were the
other seven released, too? Have—have you all regained your sanity? Do you remember—" He
stopped.
"Do we remember the extra-sensory perception formula? Yes, we do; all eight of us remember it well. It was
based on faulty premises, and incomplete, of course; but in its own way it was workable enough. We have
something much better now."
The old man shook his head slowly. "I failed, then. Such an idea is as fatal to society as we know it as a virus
plague. I tried to keep you men quarantined, but I failed. After all those years of insanity, now the chess game
begins; the poker game is over."
"It's worse than that," Camberton said, chuckling softly. "Or, actually, it's much better."
"I don't understand; explain it to me. I'm an old man, and I may not live to see my world collapse. I hope I
don't."
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Camberton said: "I'll try to explain in words, Senator. They're inadequate, but a fuller explanation will come
later."
And he launched into the story of the two-decade search of Paul Wendell.
Coda—Andantino
"TELEPATHY? Time travel?" After three hours of listening, the ex-President was still not sure he
understood.
"Think of it this way," Camberton said. "Think of the mind at any given instant as being surrounded by a
shield—a shield of privacy—a shield which you, yourself have erected, though unconsciously.
It's a perfect insulator against telepathic prying by others. You feel you have to have it in order to retain your
privacy—your sense of identity, even. But here's the kicker: even though no one else can get in, you
can't get out!
"You can call this shield 'self-consciousness'—perhaps shame is a better word. Everyone has it, to some
degree; no telepathic thought can break through it. Occasionally, some people will relax it for a fraction of a
second, but the instant they receive something, the barrier goes up again."
"Then how is telepathy possible? How can you go through it?" The Senator looked puzzled as he thoughtfully
tamped tobacco into his briar.
"NOW WAIT a minute; that sounds like some of those fourth dimension stories I've read. I recall that when I
was younger, I read a murder mystery—something about a morgue, I think. At any rate, the murder was
committed inside a locked room; no one could possibly have gotten in or out. One of the characters suggested
that the murderer traveled through the fourth dimension in order to get at the victim. He didn't go through the
walls; he went around them." The Senator puffed a match flame into the bowl of his pipe, his eyes on the
younger man. "Is that what you're driving at?"
"Exactly," agreed Camberton. "The fourth dimension. Time. You must go back in time to an instant when that
wall did not exist. An infant has no shame, no modesty, no shield against the world. You must travel back
down your own four-dimensional tube of memory in order to get outside it, and to do that, you have to know
your own mind completely, and you must be sure you know it.
"For only if you know your own mind can you communicate with another mind. Because, at the 'instant' of
contact, you become that person; you must enter his own memory at the beginning and go up the hyper-tube.
You will have all his memories, his hopes, his fears, his sense of identity. Unless you know—beyond
any trace of doubt—who you are, the result is insanity."
THE SENATOR puffed his pipe for a moment, then shook his head. "It sounds like Oriental mysticism to me.
If you can travel in time, you'd be able to change the past."
"Not at all," Camberton said; "that's like saying that if you read a book, the author's words will change.
"Time isn't like that. Look, suppose you had a long trough filled with supercooled water. At one end, you drop
in a piece of ice. Immediately the water begins to freeze; the crystallization front moves toward the other end
of the trough. Behind that front, there is ice—frozen, immovable, unchangeable. Ahead of it there is
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"The instant we call 'the present' is like that crystallization front. The past is unchangeable; the future is
flexible. But they both exist."
"I see—at least, I think I do. And you can do all this?"
"Not yet," said Camberton; "not completely. My mind isn't as strong as Wendell's, nor as capable. I'm not
the—shall we say—the superman he is; perhaps I never will be. But I'm learning—I'm
learning. After all, it took Paul twenty years to do the trick under the most favorable circumstances
imaginable."
"I see." The Senator smoked his pipe in silence for a long time. Camberton lit a cigaret and said nothing. After
a time, the Senator took the briar from his mouth and began to tap the bowl gently on the heel of his palm.
"Mr. Camberton, why do you tell me all this? I still have influence with the Senate; the present President is a
protégé of mine. It wouldn't be too difficult to get you men—ah—put away again. I have no
desire to see our society ruined, our world destroyed. Why do you tell me?"
CAMBERTON smiled apologetically. "I'm afraid you might find it a little difficult to put us away again, sir;
but that's not the point. You see, we need you. We have no desire to destroy our present culture until we have
designed a better one to replace it.
"You are one of the greatest living statesmen, Senator; you have a wealth of knowledge and ability that can
never be replaced; knowledge and ability that will help us to design a culture and a civilization that will be as
far above this one as this one is above the wolf pack. We want you to come in with us, help us; we want you
to be one of us."
"I? I'm an old man, Mr. Camberton. I will be dead before this civilization falls; how can I help build a new
one? And how could I, at my age, be expected to learn this technique?"
"Paul Wendell says you can. He says you have one of the strongest minds now existing."
The Senator put his pipe in his jacket pocket. "You know, Camberton, you keep referring to Wendell in the
present tense. I thought you said he was dead."
Again Camberton gave him the odd smile. "I didn't say that, Senator; I said they buried his body. That's quite
a different thing. You see, before the poor, useless hulk that held his blasted brain died, Paul gave the eight of
us his memories; he gave us himself. The mind is not the brain, Senator; we don't know what it is yet, but we
do know what it isn't. Paul's poor, damaged brain is dead, but his memories, his thought processes, the very
essence of all that was Paul Wendell is still very much with us.
"Do you begin to see now why we want you to come in with us? There are nine of us now, but we need the
tenth—you. Will you come?"
"I—I'll have to think it over," the old statesman said in a voice that had a faint quaver. "I'll have to
think it over."
Transcriber's Note:
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evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors
have been corrected without note.
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